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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

Gee, and the recipe for Banana Split Cake was just published in the Indianapolis Star.When did pineapple become part of a banana split? When I was growing up it was a whole banana, vanilla ice cream (two or three scoops, depending on the size of the banana and the generosity of the maker), whipped cream, chocolate syrup (maybe some chopped nuts) and a cherry on top. No pinapple or other extraneous fruit.

Ok, I'm slighlty confused what is "with cherry*pineapple with marshmellow icing"? Is it the cupcake with cherry and pineapples, the fruit? or cherry and pineapple flavoring added to the banana cake? They do look cute, without the sign that is.

Bwaaaahahahahaha! *deep breath*. Bwwaaaahahahaha! And that wreckerator will spend the rest of the day wondering why her wonderful creations never sold.

I think we may be seeing telltale signs of a covert & extremely secret club here....the Illiterate Bakers Guild, who's motto is, naturally, "Bad spellers of the world untie!". I am sure mel can someday fill us in on the illustrious history of the great IBG, but for now we can only guess at the actual number of IBG members running amuck at bakerys across our great nation & even abroad. However, I would be willing to bet that these covert operatives identify one another through the universal IBG identifier - "congratulations" - misspelled, of course. ;-)

Around here, you can get any kinds of toppings on your split. Caramel, marshmallow, fudge...but the most common are chocolate, pineapple and strawberry. It's been that way since I was a little girl, and I'm well into middle age now, so it's not a new thing.

LOL! I think this is hilarious too! But, we know it has happened to all of us (at least the spit part) writing or typing in a hurry, I mean. What makes me laugh more is when someone like @MovieMom goes as far as seriously making fun of someone for typos or misspellings as to mention a “Illiterate Bakers Guild” and then goes on to misspell the word “unite” herself as in “bad spellers of the world UNITE”. Then writes bakerys instead of bakeries. Well, that’s what is funny to me. When you’re going to go at someone for misspelling, you better check and double check your own. Indeed, bad karma :)

Wondering where in Indiana you get your banana splits? I've been in Fort Wayne my entire life, and a true banana split has pineapple. I say "true" because soft serve does not cut it. A True Banana Split is a halved banana with three scoops of ice cream, three toppings, and whipped cream from a can over all with nuts and a cherry on top. The ice creams are chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. Chocolate goes on the chocolate, strawberries on the strawberry and pineapple on the vanilla. I've seen marshmallow topping on the chocolate, but that is subversively radical.

@MovieMom – Funny you should mention IBG, as I was looking into this over the week-end (plans rained out) and you are indeed correct: it is a covert and extremely secret club, and information on it is difficult to come by. I have uncovered this much, however. While it is true that, as you say, countless numbers are “running amuck at bakerys across our great nation,” you have underestimated the number of female members when you suggested there was only one when you added “& even abroad.” Apparently, there may be as many as a dozen (which in the case of bakers is 13…) or maybe even more. Estimates have gone all the way to 144, but that’s a gross guess. While further inquiry is needed into this organization, I did find out one more thing: there is a little discord in the ranks. Herbert Glokken, a decorator of no noteworthy talent (when asked to make a cake for the winner of a local spelling bee, he couldn’t figure out how to spell any of it, and was heard mumbling “Two B, or not two B; that is the question.”) has been promoting himself as an outstanding candidate for the position of Chairman, much to the annoyance of his fellow members. He is relentless in this pursuit, and apparently not only regularly makes this pitch at the organization’s annual meeting, but also at the local monthly meetings as well. Naturally, this has not endeared him to his colleagues, and when they see him coming they just roll their eyes and sigh, “Here comes the Glokken spiel.”

@zoomom: Hey, you know-that guy DOES look a little suspect.Okay-here's how we'll handle this: I'll distract the subject by approaching him and asking him if he'd been in Kabul on a Wednesday night back in February of 2011.Meanwhile,YOU stand behind me and wait for my signal, which will be when I ask him if he's ever heard the joke about a guy who spit on cakes.As soon as I give that signal, YOU jump out from behind me, swab the inside of his cheek and perform an immediate DNA check on the tissue sample.You ready? Let's DO this!=^-.-^=

Hi, Jodee! Glad you're back! Yeah, I was gonna nail Blancs too, but I think you & BADKarma & brenda got it covered. (I like BADKarma's the best.) There's actually a shirt (or was) that says (in white on a black background) just that: BAD Spellers of the World...UNTIE! BWAHHAHAHAHHA...never got around to buying it though...or the BASSackwards shirt with backwards bass all over it... :-)And just one more...Great shirt for someone hitting a milestone birthday..."[Name] is [##] years old but s/he's still Tarp as a Shack!" :-) (I can't wait to give that one to somebody I know! :-) Guess I'm tacky that way...

And for the banana split survey, hubby (who was born in Lake Charles, LA but grew up in Odessa, TX) sez:one banana, split lengthwise, with 3 scoops vanilla ice cream One scoop is topped with chocolate syrup/sauce, one with caramel, & one with cherry; then top with whipped creme on all, and a cherry on top of the creme on the center scoop.

Me: If @ home or @ Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor (oh, how i miss them!!!) -(I believe this is how they did it): one banana, split lengthwise, with 1 scoop vanilla ice cream, 1 scoop chocolate & 1 scoop strawberry. Choc sauce on choc ice cream, strawberry on 'berry, and pineapple sauce on the vanilla; then top with whipped creme on all, and a cherry on top of the creme on the center scoop. (Houston, Tx area)

Or, @ Abel's Drugstore or Dairy Queen : Same as for Me above, *but* all scoops were vanilla ice cream. :-( (I should know - Abel's was close enough to get to on my bike & 1 week's allowance was just enough to cover a banana split. :-) (Pasadena, Tx - just east of Houston)

Now I want to go back to my childhood & have my birthday party @ Farrell's all over again - before I had food allergies. <sigh> Where's that d*mn TARDIS?! Hey, Doc, can ya give me a lift? Just this once... ;-)

I totally missed "spit" due to "marshmellow." I worked in an ice cream store and it's marshmallow; my boss made me write it 100 times when I first started and questioned him. (It's also sherbet not sherbert. Huh.)Although the store was in Orlando, the owner was from Connecticut and banana splits were 3 scoops of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry) topped with (chocolate syrup, crushed pineapple and strawberries in syrup). You could change the flavors but that was the standard. I'm not knocking anyone else's idea of what it is- I've been to places where it was only hot fudge on all 3 and I was completely fine with that!! :D

(waves cheerily) Hi, mel! Still adore you!!

@sendingtheclowns You rock. big LOL over here!

@KarateLady we had a Farrell's and I would jump up and down in my chair when they'd bang the drum and the guys would run up & down the aisles with that freakin' huge trough of a sundae in a stretcher up on their shoulders!! Never got to join in on one of those and I still feel gypped.

Oh sheesh lol. I too saw that cherry as cremy. I wondered what exactly had happened to the pineapple before someone spit on the cake. Guess now I will never know. Honestly how do they not proof read the signs lol.

@Barbara Anne - I forgot about the drum & the stretcher! One time, they auctioned off a chocolate sundae in a glass...started the bidding @ 5 cents...it sold for $1.20 (reg price was $1.25). It was lunchtime @ the Galleria mall in Houston, 2nd or 3rd level. We'd stopped after a doc appt for me (checkup - not sick!). Everyone had fun bidding on it! Good times <sigh>...There's still a couple in CA & HI. I hope to visit one if I go back to CA to see my sis. Will have to be satisfied with sippin' on an iced tea or something...

I once saw a sign in my University cafeteria for "Spit Pea Soup." I told the Dining Services supervisor about it. That sign was gone in 30 seconds.

I have two other favorite menu goofs. One (at a pretty high-class restaurant) was "mescaline greens." I don't THINK the chef intended to get everyone high from his mesclun greens. The other, from a Chinese restaurant: "Mixed Ass Vegetables." Took me a few minutes to realize "assorted."